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Author: Lothar Hönnighausen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521320631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Lother Hönnighausen's book examines the literature and the visual arts of English symbolism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author: Lothar Hönnighausen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521320631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Lother Hönnighausen's book examines the literature and the visual arts of English symbolism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author: Lothar Hönninghausen
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Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Author: Arthur Symons
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752431997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Reproduction of the original: The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons
Author: Michael Wachtel
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299144500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Michael Wachtel explores here the art and development of Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), a poet and theorist who articulated a highly influential concept of Symbolism. The German writers Goethe and Novalis played a powerful part in Ivanov's vision and were, in his mind, powerful precursors in a proto-Symbolist pantheon. Their work not only influenced his writing but also, in maintaining the Symbolist creed of unity in art and life, altered his world perspective. Wachtel, in exploring Ivanov's relationship to Goethe and Novalis, illuminates the issues that lie at the core of Symbolism: the theory of the symbol, poetics, poetry as theurgy, the relationship between literary creation and "real life," and the theory and practice of translation.
Author: Edward Engelberg
Publisher: New York : Dutton
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Author: Derek Brewer
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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An explanation of the underlying structure of many narratives from ancient to modern times, including fairy tales, medieval romance, Shakespeare, Mansfield Park and Great Expectations
Author: Arthur Symons
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Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Author: Ruth Zabriskie Temple
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258043926
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500181317
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Symbolic art - Romanticism and Symbolism - Symbolist movement in France - Gustave Moreau - Redon and Bresdin - Puvis de Chavannes and Carriere - Gauguin, Pont-Aven and the Nabis - Edvard Munch.
Author: Arthur Symons
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781496096470
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An excerpt from the INTRODUCTION: WITHOUT symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. What are words themselves but symbols, almost as arbitrary as the letters which compose them, mere sounds of the voice to which we have agreed to give certain significations, as we have agreed to translate these sounds by those combinations of letters? Symbolism began with the first words uttered by the first man, as he named every living thing; or before them, in heaven, when God named the world into being. And we see, in these beginnings, precisely what Symbolism in literature really is: a form of expression, at the best but approximate, essentially but arbitrary, until it has obtained the force of a convention, for an unseen reality apprehended by the consciousness. It is sometimes permitted to us to hope that our convention is indeed the reflection rather than merely the sign of that unseen reality. We have done much if we have found a recognisable sign. "A symbol," says Comte Goblet d'Alviella, in his book on The Migration of Symbols, "might be defined as a representation which does not aim at being a reproduction." Originally, as he points out, used by the Greeks to denote "the two halves of the tablet they divided between themselves as a pledge of hospitality," it came to be used of every sign, formula, or rite by which those initiated in any mystery made themselves secretly known to one another. Gradually the word extended its meaning, until it came to denote every conventional representation of idea by form, of the unseen by the visible. "In a Symbol," says Carlyle, "there is concealment and yet revelation: hence therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance." And, in that fine chapter of Sartor Resartus, he goes further, vindicating for the word its full value: "In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there." It is in such a sense as this that the word Symbolism has been used to describe a movement which, during the last generation, has profoundly influenced the course of French literature. All such words, used of anything so living, variable, and irresponsible as literature, are, as symbols themselves must so often be, mere compromises, mere indications. Symbolism, as seen in the writers of our day, would have no value if it were not seen also, under one disguise or another, in every great imaginative writer. What distinguishes the Symbolism of our day from the Symbolism of the past is that it has now become conscious of itself, in a sense in which it was unconscious even in Gérard de Nerval, to whom I trace the particular origin of the literature which I call Symbolist, The forces which mould the thought of men change, or men's resistance to them slackens; with the change of men's thought comes a change of literature, alike in its inmost essence and in its outward form: after the world has starved its soul long enough in the contemplation and the re-arrangement of material things, comes the turn of the soul; and with it comes the literature of which I write in this volume, a literature in which the visible world is no longer a reality, and the unseen world no longer a dream.
